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US History
FDR and shadow of war
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why did FDR oppose the London Economic Conference? What happened after FDR's withdraw | an agreement to stabilize national currencies might hurt America's recovery from depression; the trend toward extreme nationalism was strengthened |
| Why did FDR recognize Soviet Union | trade and allied against Japan |
| Why did FDR embark on the Good Neighbor Policy | he was eager to enlist Latin American allies to defend the Western Hemisphere from the European and Asain dictators |
| As part of his Good Neighbor Policy President FDR began removing American controls on what three countries | Haiti, Cuba, and Panama |
| What act increased American's foreign trade | the 1934 Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act |
| What were the results of passing the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 36, and 37 | 1. no American can sail on a belligerent ship 2. can't sell or transport munitions to a belligerent 3. can't make loans to a belligerent |
| If the president were to announce the existence of a foreign war, how would Americans be affected by the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 36, and 37 | no direct ties of warring nations |
| list the sequence of the transition of American policy on arms sales to warring nations from 1925 to 1940 | embargo to cash-and-carry to lend-lease |
| what did America's neautrality during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 lead to | Spain becoming a fascist dictatorship |
| what was the result of FDR's sensational quote "Quarantine Speech" in 1937 | a wave of protest by isolationists |
| when did Britain and France consent to Germany's taking the Sudentenland from Czechsolvakia | Munich agreement |
| What happened shortly after Hitler signed a nonaggression past with the Soviet Union | Germany invaded Poland and began WWII |
| What was the first country attacked after the 1939 Hitler-Stalin nonaggression treaty | Poland |
| List the nations was conquered by Hitler's Germany between September 1939 and June 1940 | Netherlands, France, Denmark, Norway, and Poland |
| what was probably the greatest obstacle to America's acceptance of more Jewish refugees from Europe? | a failure of moral imagination and belief that the Holocaust could actually be happening |
| Why did the US military refuse to bomb Nazi gas chambers such as those at Auschwitz and Dachau | the belief that bombing would divert essential military resources |
| How many Jewish refugees did the US admit during the 1930s | 150,000 |
| what was Congress' first response to the unexpected fall of France in 1940 | draft law |
| what event effectively ended America's neutrality effectively | France fell to Germany |
| in 1940, what did the British give the US in exchange for American destroyers | 8 valuable naval bases |
| By 1940 what did American public opinion favor | providing Britain with "all aid short of war" |
| Who was the surprise Republican presidential nominee in 1940 | Wendell L. Willkie |
| Why was FDR motivated to run for a third term in 1940 | belief that America needed his experienced leadership during the international crisis |
| what did the US do when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 | made lend-lease aid available to the Soviets |
| What did FDR think lowering the tariffs would do | increase trade |
| throughout most of the 1930's what was the American people respose to the aggressive actions of Germany, Italy, and Japan | retreated furter into isolation |
| In the Fascist aggressions in the 1930s, what country did Mussolini invade? Hitler? Franco? | Mussolini â Ethiopia; Hitler â Czechoslovakia; Franco â Spain |
| By the mid-1930s, what did many people think was needed to keep the US out of war | forbid a declaration of war by Congress unless first approved by a popular referendum |
| IN 1940, how did Republican presidential candidate Willkie avoid deepening the sharp divisions among the American people | avoiding attacking FDR for his increasingly interventionist policies |
| what did congress allow after the Greer was fired upon, the Kearny crippled and the Reuben James sunk | allowed the arming of US merchant vessels |
| why did Japan believe that it was forced into war with the US | FDR insisted that Japan withdraw from China |
| Why was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 a surprise? | FDR suspected if an attack came it would be in Malaya or the Philippine or mainland |
| on the eve of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, what was the attitude toward the war for a large majority of Americans | wanted to keep the US out of war |
| What are the dates for WWII | 1939-1945 |
| When did US enter the war | 1941 – Pearl Harbor |
| What countries are in the Axis | Germany Italy and Japan |
| What countries are in the Allies | US, Great Britain, France, and USSR |
| Who was the leader of England in this time | Churchill |
| Why was the League of Nations do | prevent war; set up Treaty of versailles; |
| What is the open door policy | opens trading with China for the US, GB, France, and Germany |
| What is a debt moratorium | countries do not have to pay their debt for a while (for countries who owed US money |
| What is the Good Neighbor Policy | FDR’s program to let Latin American’s know we are just here to help and provide protection; basically monroe doctrine |
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